3.21 nerf predictions

With all the shittalking about D4 going on around here, traditions are being forgotten. I will not stand for that, so here is nerf predictions thread.

Why not predict buffs?

This is Path of Exile, not Carebears IV.

My personal nerf predictions:
1) Seismic trap. GGG has hinted this already, so I'm taking the easy win.
2) All the other traps, because it wouldn't be PoE if the entire archetype didn't get nerfed alongside its strongest skill
3) Devouring Diadem, for obvious reasons
4) SRS because temporary minions are too good in comparison to permanent minions. Time to bring them into line.
5) Boneshatter. Overperforms all other melee skills by too much.
6) Cold dot - too versatile, and the overlap of multiple cold dot effects stacks damage too easily. Time to introduce a new ailment, cold burn, which works just like ignite.
7) Movement skills - almost nobody plays ruthless, so all the other modes need to get closer to it, and nerfing all movement skills to death would be a good start
8) VVG, as it scales way too fast in terms of damage and clear speed alike.
9) Omniscience, because nerfing VG alone isn't enough
10) All damage over time in general - RF has been too good for too long, but nerfing it directly would piss off too many people, hence mobs need to get a hidden, 20 - 60 % unpiercable resistance to damage over time.
11) molten shell, in at least 3 different ways
12) cyclone hit rate (courtesy of vio)

Lol this seems player friendly!

1) Seismic and SRS are only strong because of poison being OP. Physical SRS is no where near as strong as poison SRS, and poison Seismic is what everyone played.

2) Ben said that Seismic Trap is no more powerful than another top tier skill. That comes straight from the best player in the world right now.

The problem with seismic is the streamers that say it's op just because they are biased against it.

3) Boneshatter is THE ONLY DECENT melee skill, there is only one, so why nerf the only good melee skill in the game? Oh, I guess because even one melee skill is to many.....

Well the rest of your post kind of follows the above, your the guy that wants the only enjoyable skills nerfed instead of buffing the underperformers, If you want something nerfed that actually needs to be nerfed look at Spell Suppression for casters. Casters walk around with 100% spell suppression and 70k armor all day, while the left side of the tree actually has to choose.

if I were to bet, I would bet on Seismic trap and the passives that allow Sion and Pathfinder to have infinite pots

anything that makes the game fun and approachable
anything ben used in gauntlet

Wasn't the ultimate nerf thread from the GGG whiteboard,
- Nerf glacial hammer
- Nerf Mathil

top prediction. you just missed cyclone cause ...

Molten Strike Nerf for sure!

RF, cold dot, ea, traps/mines, poison dmg, temporal chains, champion nerf

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vio wrote:

top prediction. you just missed cyclone cause ...

You're right. Going to edit it in... :D